The tire industry, as a long-established and mature sector, is undergoing a profound transformation driven by electrification, smart manufacturing, and sustainability. In this context, efficiency-oriented strategies and incremental improvements can no longer ensure long-term competitiveness....

The rapid pace of digital transformation has increased organizations' reliance on digital technologies and collaborative systems as key drivers of technological innovation. However, the mechanisms through which digital trust, digital technology, and digital capability shape innovation...

Despite the growing role of business incubators in fostering digital startups in emerging economies, the mechanism through which business incubator characteristics, specifically relational capital and structural embeddedness, influence startup innovation performance remains underexplored,...

Innovation is a key catalyst for born global firms (BGs) to enter international markets. However, resource-constrained BGs face significant challenges in overcoming resource limitations during innovation and rapid internationalization. An open innovation ecosystem (OIE) offers a cost-effective...

In today's globalized and rapidly evolving technological landscape, innovation serves as a critical driver of economic growth and competitive advantage. The concept of an innovation ecosystem has emerged to elucidate the complex interactions among various stakeholders-including public sectors,...

In Italy, the debate on industrial development and economic growth incentives highlights several key themes. Family capitalism celebrated for its resilience, is simultaneously critiqued for curbing innovation and growth potential (Colli et al., 2003; González et al., 2012; Yanagisako, 2020);...

Objective: This study investigates open innovation (OI) competence development through a dynamic capabilities lens, offering a systematic understanding of how OI competencies are distributed across higher education contexts in mature and post-transition economies. Research Design & Methods: We...

The entrepreneurial performance of new ventures operating within the sustainable open innovation paradigm remains underexplored, particularly in terms of how specific sustainability-oriented practices translate into measurable performance outcomes. Prior research has largely examined...

This study aimed to validate a multidimensional scale designed to measure the capacity for social innovation in social organisations, understood as the set of organisational competencies that enable the generation and sustainability of innovative processes oriented toward social value creation....

Purpose This study investigates how ecosystem reconfiguration serves as the foundation for open innovation (OI) in Indonesia's travel agency sector. It introduces the Hybrid Smart Travel Assistant-Community-Based Travel Agent (STA-CBTA) model to explain how digital and community-based actors...

This study examines how collaborative open innovation mechanisms can enhance cyber resilience in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating under increasing digital risk and resource constraints. Employing a mixed-method research design, the study integrates a systematic literature...

This research investigates the competing narratives surrounding decentralized cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, and state-backed Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). The primary contribution of this work is a conceptual model of these narratives, categorizing them into targeted positive and...

Women entrepreneurs in emerging economies face institutional and technological barriers that limit innovation and inclusive growth. This study develops an integrative model of entrepreneurial technology literacy (ETL) to explain how women transform technological engagement into empowerment...

This systematic review explores the use of Design Thinking (DT) as a human-centered methodology to support organizational change and innovation in complex, dynamic environments where traditional change management often falls short. A systematic search of PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science...

This study investigates the strategic drivers and performance outcomes of open innovation in Vietnamese manufacturing firms, with a particular focus on entrepreneurial orientation, proactive environmental strategy, and adaptive capacity. Grounded in the Natural Resource-Based View and Dynamic...

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a framework for assessing the authenticity of Thai cuisine within the context of gastronomy tourism in Thailand. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, beginning with in-depth interviews with a diverse group of stakeholders including chefs,...

Given the ever-changing world of technological advances, and due to the fact that business entities strive for efficiency and cost reduction, open innovation (OI) has become the focus of academic and scholarly discussions. Furthermore, to increase their competitiveness, small and medium...

In recent years, the business environment has experienced a fast-paced change due to issues such as geopolitics or COVID-19. Accordingly, business internationalisation has been accelerated while the approaches followed for such an end have been improved to maintain companies' competitiveness....

The adoption of open innovation poses significant challenges that are important to explore. Studies in this field have mainly focused on exploring the causes of the failure of open innovation among large companies. This study addresses this research gap by employing a sample of 297 Portuguese...

In contemporary academia and industry, the commercialization of technology through licensing has emerged as a prevalent strategy. This paradigmatic shift has prompted numerous industrial firms to intensify their focus on technology commercialization as a mechanism to optimize the returns on...

The concept of open innovation, which involves the intentional exchange of internal and external knowledge to accelerate innovation, has been widely discussed in business management but, in recent years, has also entered the academic community. This concept aligns closely with the university's...